karna small bodman
Karna Small Bodman was on the air for fifteen years as a television news anchor and reporter in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. She also did political commentary for the ABC Network in New York. [1]
The Honorable Karna Small Bodman served in the White House for six years, first as deputy press secretary and later as senior director of the National Security Council. [2]
Welcome to the website of author Karna Small Bodman. [3]
I chose Karna Small Bodman because, as far as we know, she is the only woman who served as a Senior White House Official (of any administration) who is writing novels today. [4]
Her first novel is titled CHECKMATE and features characters and scenes inside The White House and throughout the Washington metropolitan area as well as hot spots overseas. [1]
When Karna left The White House to become Senior Vice President of a Public Affairs firm, she was the highest ranking woman on The White House staff. [5]
“Karna Small Bodman gives us an insider’s view of a frightening situation that seems all too real. [3]
Scant months after Talbot managed to avert a war between India and Pakistan by deploying a technology she invented in Checkmate (2007), the White House taps her to develop an antimissile device to restore public confidence in plane travel after a series of midair explosions aboard commercial aircraft. [6]
A highly talented author, her first political thriller, Checkmate, was published by Forge in January 2007. [4]
Karna served in the White House of President Ronald Reagan for six years. [3]
When Ronald Reagan was elected President, he stood in front of Blair House and named Jim Brady as his Press Secretary with Karna as Jim’s Deputy. [5]
Her second book, GAMBIT, was featured on The Today Show and has the same characters dealing with yet another national security crisis. [1]
The sequel, GAMBIT, features the same characters with yet another foreign policy crisis to solve. [...] Her first novel, CHECKMATE, was inspired by her White House experiences and features scenes in the Oval Office, Situation Room, Georgetown restaurants as well as hot spots overseas. [7]
Bodman, a deputy press secretary and later senior director of the National Security Council under Reagan, comes up with a cool premise for her debut thriller, but the book suffers from annoying minutiae, lame jokes and pedestrian plotting. [8]
Sources:
[1] Author Karna Small Bodman Speaker Bio - Find Novelists, Politics …
[2] Macmillan: Checkmate: Karna Small Bodman: Books
[3] Karna Bodman-Home
[4] Author of the Month: Karna Small Bodman
[5] Karna Bodman-about karna
[6] Amazon.com: Gambit: Karna Small Bodman: Books
[7] Fresh Fiction: Author Karna Small Bodman biography and book list
[8] Amazon.com: Checkmate: Karna Small Bodman: Books